Egypt: temple of the whole world : studies in honour of Jan Assmann = Ägypten : Tempel der gesammten Welt

""The intellectual heritage of Ancient Egypt"" - once wrote Jan Assmann - ""can hardly be said to have become part of our cultural memory. It is a subject of fascination, not of understanding."" This fascination began when ancient Greek travellers started visi...

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Subtitles:Ägypten
Contributors: Meyer, Sibylle (Editor) ; Assmann, Jan 1938-2024 (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
German
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2003
In:Year: 2003
Series/Journal:Studies in the history of religions 0169-8834 v. 97
Studies in the history of religions v. 97
Further subjects:B African Religions
B Egypt Religion Egypt
B Philosophy & Religion
B Electronic book
B Egypt
B BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Spirituality ; Paganism & Neo-Paganism
B Religion
B Egypt Religion
B Festschrift
B Electronic books
B RELIGION ; Comparative Religion
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Summary:""The intellectual heritage of Ancient Egypt"" - once wrote Jan Assmann - ""can hardly be said to have become part of our cultural memory. It is a subject of fascination, not of understanding."" This fascination began when ancient Greek travellers started visiting Egypt, and continues unto this day, more often than not as a scholarly search for the oldest roots of our cultural memory. Jan Assmann's superb academic achievement undoubtedly represents the single most significant contribution to the modern understanding of Ancient Egypt, reaching far beyond the boundaries of Egyptology proper. The
Monotheismus und politische Theologie bei einem israelitischen Profeten im babylonischen ExilAlltagsjuden, Sabbatjuden-Metamorphosen der jüdischen Festkultur; Die Grosse Bauinschrift von Abydos; Principiis obsta (Bauer B2, 95-97); Und sie töteten ihn doch ... Der Ritualmord am König in der Frühzeit; Tempel des Jahu und "Straße des Königs"-Ein Konflikt in der späten Perserzeit auf Elephantine; "Ich bin Isis, die Herrin der beiden Länder"-Versuch zum demotischen Hintergrund der memphitischen Isisaretalogie; Namen in einer Heiligen Stadt; Hermes und Plotin
Preface; Remembering the Desert; Zur Konzeption der Bilder in Seitenanlagen am Grabhof der 18. Dynastie; "Tempel der ganzen Welt"-Ägypten und Rom; Rationale Mysterien? Eine Interpretationsoption für die Zauberflöte; Pharaonische Beschneidung; Middle Kingdom hymns, other Sundry religious texts -an inventory; Getting the ritual right-fishtail knives in Predynastic Egypt; Tempel und Kathedrale-Victor Hugo als Kulturhistoriker; Der Tempel als Kosmos-Zur kosmologischen Bedeutung des Tempels in der Umwelt Israels
What does the word "religious" mean in Reinhold's "religious Freemasonry"?Gärten in thebanischen Grabanlagen; Index
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - English and German. - Description based on print version record
ISBN:1423714385